
She Somehow Escaped the Asylum: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Involuntary Commitment in Black Virginia
Location ZoomShelby Pumphrey, Vassar’s Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in African American History, will discuss Ellen Coy, a Black woman street preacher who faced a Commission of Lunacy panel in Virginia in 1898 after challenging some of the state’s most prominent Black male preachers. Vassar community only, please.
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